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9. TWINED SPRUCE ROOT HAT Haida-style weaving; Kwakwaka'wakw-style painting; rings from a different hat This hat has been altered from its original form. It appears that parts of two separate hats have been joined together, the basketry rings and the crown of the hat (at the top) have been joined to the flaring sides.
The paint is red, black, green, and blue.
The paint is black and red.
The pigment is red. The cord is cotton. The down is bird.
CEDAR BARK CAPE Kwakwaka'wakw Skilled weavers soak yellow cedar bark in salt water and pound it until it is soft enough for capes and robes. This cape, from Alert Bay, British Columbia, originally had a comfortable fur neckline. 1800s; Gift of Young Naturalists' Society; No. 4794
The stories of seafarers are often peopled by monsters of the deep: bringers of bad weather, capsizers, devourers of men. The Yagim is all of those. Described as a destroyer of whole tribes, a shark-like monster who lurks behind canoes, or the source of storms, his name literally means badness. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)